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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Shared samadhi

Union in absolute silence is the cornerstone of making love.

That is to say, another word for love is shared samadhi.

Such sharing of samadhi reaches its apogee when the sharers are capable of individual samadhi. With no knowledge of such, sharing becomes imbalanced and tilts towards receiving. Then it effectively ceases to be strictly madhura.

The constant flow between equals of giving and receiving the samadhi impetus, or of creating effective waves in the ocean of samadhi, is the ideal of madhura-rasa.

Expertise in love is when both lovers are experts in samadhi. Therefore Krishna rightly said, "Be a yogi."

And such yoga must be asamprajnata yoga. Because even the so-called samprajnata of the devotees must pass through the door of asamprajnata.

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Physical lovemaking has an external power to take one to a certain level of samprajnata samadhi, but
this is incorporated into a broader state by the expert yogi.

Due to its mostly external nature, or to the extent of its externality, the degree of samadhi in lovemaking is affected by one's status in rajas, tamas, or sattva, or transcendence. Even so, since samadhi pervades all levels of the mind-field, one's momentary happiness in the sex act, even the most brutal, comes from that, i.e., from the sattva of samprajnata samadhi.

To experience the fullness of love, one must go through the door of a-samprajnata samadhi and into the transcendence known as Vrindavan.

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Sankirtan is shared samadhi in the plural.

Since shared samadhi has the basic feature of being together in silence, meditation in groups is also sankirtan.

Nama sankirtan exists on both sides of the river of silence.

But the same rule as above applies. The level of sankirtan samadhi is heightened through the presence of individuals with genuine samadhi experience, especially the samadhi of the Vrindavan kunja -- prema, Radha-Krishna, and the sakhis.